Quotes About World

The decay of power is changing the world.

es impresionante el poco consenso que existe sobre la orientación de los cambios en nuestro mundo y las previsibles amenazas, por no hablar de la escasez de ideas realistas acerca de cómo hacerles frente.

The perception that the world around you is changing in ways you cannot predict or control feels deeply threatening to a sizable subset of any population.

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world.

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

power has a social function. Its role is not just to enforce domination or to create winners and losers: it also organizes communities, societies, marketplaces, and the world.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

The world will not alter for all your meddling.

Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;

Le scandale du monde, est ce qui fait l'offense; Et ce n'est pas pécher, que pécher en silence.

That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never.     ORGON

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

hello world

Outside the window, one lone car passed and threw a violent blast of rainwater over the sidewalk. It was a storm, by now. Looking at that rain, I was falling deeply in love with our warm bar. What could you do, with a world like that? I was in love with every minute of being alive even as I floundered.

The world wasn't safe today. The truth was, this world was never safe. (19)

Het gezicht in de spiegel was dat van een vreemde. En ze benijdde haar. Want dat vreemde meisje was veilig in haar wereld van glas.

What do angels look like? I saw one today wering gaudy jewelry, spoke with a thick Spanish accent, quoted 'Chakespeare.' She said, 'All the world's a stage and sometimes you just gotta roll with los punches.

Elles disent, si je m'approprie le monde, que ce soit pour m'en déposséder aussitôt, que ce soit pour créer des rapports nouveaux entre moi et le monde.

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.

if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.